The Minneapolis Star Tribune is offering a glimpse of a newspaper after bankrupcty. These details are from a Star Tribune story by David Phelps:
A story about hard plastic drinking bottles containing bisphenol A leaching notable amounts of the controversial chemical into people’s bodies that appeared on page A1 of Friday’s Post-Dispatch raised questions from readers as to exactly which bottles had BPA.
One reader wanted…
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Media critic Jack Shafer has called out newspapers throughout the country — Bogus trend of the week: raising backyard chickens.
Shafer writes that newspapers keep reporting about an increasing number of people raising chickens in urban and suburban settings…
The Washington Post on Sunday noted the demise of the Rocky Mountain News and used the occasion to offer its readers a primer on the sad state of the newspaper industry.
In an article titled “Under Weight of Its Mistakes, Newspaper…
Media critic Mike Miner of the Chicago Reader informs me that he is not the same Mike Miner that worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a month in 1999. I’ve falsely held that belief for many years and incorrectly included…
For the record: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch sent a reporter and a columnist last year to cover the Super Bowl in Phoenix between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. This year, sports columnist Bernie Miklasz is our lone…
The Chicago Tribune will print a tabloid edition for street sales and a broadsheet size for home delivery, media columnist Phil Rosenthal reports on chicagotribune.com:
“The Chicago Tribune on Monday will hit the streets - and its rival, the Chicago Sun-Times - with a newly…
The Chicago Tribune has told readers that it will make adjustments in its recent redesign based on feedback it’s getting.
In an article Thursday, the industry journal Editor & Publisher characterized the Tribune’s note to readers this way:
“In an extraordinary mea culpa…
A caller today chastised us for repeating false stories about the messy Bill Clinton-George W. Bush transition.
A front-page story on presidential transitions in today’s Post-Dispatch says of the Clinton-Bush transition: “The handoff proved somewhat less harmonious weeks later, when the…
Media industry magazine Editor & Publisher reports that, as of Wednesday, Barack Obama leads John McCain in endorsements from daily newspapers, 234 to 105.
The circulation of the Obama-backing papers is over 21 million to McCain’s 7 million, E&P tallies.
It notes that …
